"Perfessor" Bill Edwards performs "Kitten On The Keys"

[shyshygooby]

He plays with his mouh open like me; I do not feel alone :D.

[pianolasociety]

Les Dawsonesque more than Les Dawson even. Brilliant!

[Fersomling]

It's being played in a church!

[tdub1941]

Yes It is!

Praise the Lord Jesus up in the sky!

Hallelujah & roll in the isles!

Ain't it great!

[talory]

@tdub1941 They'd be rolling the aisles, not the isles (unless there are small islands among the pews.) Yay for homonyms! Words mean things :)



[tdub1941]

@talory

You got me on that one. I wasn't paying close attention and goofed up. Yes, I do know the difference.

[nicerubberboot]

Very high tempo changes the character of this music! This is like a Guinness record for high speed akkordeon . He can play piano like a virtuose, but the cat is shooting over the piano keys. Zez made this composition for an intention of the sound what a real cat make by walking over keys.

[accordiongirl]

Hey Perfessor...haven't seen you in some years...Barbara

[RonRizzy]

You have chops - I'll give you that - but one suggestion:

Embelishing is one thing - but at least if you're going to do it - play the right melody....embelish...don't change the melody

[Keeper1st]

He isn't changing the melody. The only time he's deviating significantly from the score are on the vamp and breaks, same as anyone else would. Bill is an historian; he knows what he's doing.

[ThaSchwab]

This wasn't by Scott Joplin.

[tdub1941]

Maybe it was composed by Frances Scott Key?

[ThaSchwab]

Frances Scott Key wasn't a composer; this is by Zez Confrey.

[tdub1941]

Yep, you are quite right. In fact if you had read the writeup (to the right of the video and click on "more info")you would have noticed that old Zez's name was already listed there, and it was there when I first uploaded this video back in February this year.

Keep watching!

Thanks for the exchange, it was fun!

RagJazzMonkey

[honkindonkey]

@tdub1941 wasnt Frances Scott Key a poet? aside from being in the war of 1812, he wrote poetry... star spangled banner was put to a previously existing english bar song...

[idasynco]

I now have the music to this one, and it is no light weight endeavor to learn it! It does look fun, especially Bill's spicy version! 5*

[allendale1962]

Bill, you ROCK with this one! Great Job! Try and listen my mediocre vids on youtube. Thanks allendale1962

[tdub1941]

Hi Allen,

You can go directly to Perfessor Bill's website and see all of his resources there, and maybe drop him a line from there as he may not notice this comment. the webe address is: perfessorbilldotcom

Great to hear from you & I hope all is well with you these days!

RagJazzMonkey

Tom Warner

[theragtimefan]

It's like "Tom and Jerry" when the run on the keys of a piano.

[Foozlebug]

Yup! It's kinda funny when that happens.